Kill Team Match Up
Kid_Happy Vs. Z|insane
Eldar Tau Empire
200 Points
Eldar Army
The Murder(d): six Dire Avengers and five Swooping Hawks led by Exarch with a Hawks Talon
Tau Army
Elite: Crisis Shas'vre (4#, 199 pts)
1 Crisis Shas'vre @ 199 pts ((C:TE, pg. 34); Acute Senses; Deep Strike; Unit Type: Jump Infantry (Jet Packs); Airbursting Fragmentation Projector; Team Leader; Shas'vre Upgrade; Crisis Battlesuit; Crisis Battlesuit; Hard-wired Drone Controller; Shield Drone; Missile Pod; Multi-Tracker)
1 Crisis Battlesuit (Burst Cannon; Missile Pod; Multi-Tracker)
1 Crisis Battlesuit (Missile Pod; Plasma Rifle; Multi-Tracker)
1 Shield Drone (Shield Generator)
Report Begins
"Commander Kais, I have a sqaud of Eldar ahead. Permission to engage?"
"Negative Lar, this is recon only our orders are not to engage, we are only here to find the extent of the Ork infestation. The Water Cast still think's it is possible to broker a deal with at least one the Eldar tribes."
"Ah yes enlightened one. Just to let you know they are coming this way, oh look they totally want to talk." Lar grinned in the view screen.
The Eldar had shifted quickly towards the squads position cutting the distance between them quickly with their winged warriors.
"So much for the Stealth Team giving us a heads up huh Doran. Kais looks like you will get to use your new toy." Lar was on the edge ready to get the first kill of the campaign.
"Keep the comms clean Lar, I want everyone to cover now. Kais to Command we have Eldar inbound presumed hostile. Requesting permission to engage."
"Command to Kais, engage."
The battlesuits moved to position along the ruins of a building and a crashed lander. Kais fired his first round out of the experimental Airbursting Fragmentation Launcher. The explosion ripped through the front lines of the Eldar, but they continued on barely slowing in their advance.
"Is that really the best you can do with your fancy toy Kais, I got the two in the center, Doran lets show the boss how its done."
The suits missilepods streaked towards the Eldar Swooping Hawks exploding into their ranks leaving one dead and the other seeking cover.
The Eldar kept coming and firing their lasblasters their shots pinging off the Suit's armor.
"Doran, they are coming for Lar, as much as I hate to let him have all the glory shift right, cover him, and don't let them flank us." Kais put down a indicator on the his battle map and saw Doran's confirmation light flash, before making a second attempt with his fragmentation launcher, this time with more success. Two eldar dire avengers dropped from the blast and forced a swooping hawk to the ground.
Lar's burst canon burped its death towards the Hawks Exarch and his cohorts, with his missiles following the rounds towards his targets knowing that he would be forced into close combat with the Hawk. Only one hawk pressed on toward him firing its hawks talon into the suit with no effect, before the Exarch slammed into the suit.
"Lar are you okay?"
"Are you kidding me he hits like you Kais." Lar grimaced under the attacks as he attempted to swing back at the Exarch. "I will give him this though hes fast. Can you keep the rest off me this is getting fun."
"You heard him Doran." Kais had let his attention be diverted with Lar's fight with the Exarch, was quickly reminded as the newly appointed squad leader's shield drone exploded under the fury of the shurikan blades of the avenger that was covering his Exarch.
Quickly brining his targeting systems to bear on the Eldar and eliminated him and his cohorts behind him with a volley of his missiles and fragmenation round.
Doran finished off the right flank with a sense of finality as his plasma rifle launched its superheated payload into the cover that a Hawk had taken refuge from vaporising the cover letting the second round vaporise the surprised Eldar's torso.
Lar parried the Exarch to keep his suits weaker joints from damage, but was in no position to retaliate.
"Come on lets do this stay still so I can hit you already." Lar cursed at the winged warrior.
The Exarch stopped and waved at him
"Another time youngling. I would continue this, but we are needed elsewhere." The Exarch and his remaining avengers phased out of existence.
Lar jumped to the Exarch's previous location. "Coward. Kais permission to continue advancing after them."
Kais command line blinked at him. "Command to Kais, pull back to your patrol we have an Ork horde advancing on the Eldar in your location."
"Kais to Command, confirmed we are pulling out zero casualties on our end to report"
Report Ends
Remarks: I was totally lucky in my armor saves. The only save I failed was rolling a 1 on the shield drone. The extra shots, range and strength of the missile pods pushed Kid_Happy's army to the limit of its endurance though and forced the Hawks down to cover slowing their advance for more shots before the assault hit. The Airbursting Fragmentation Launcher put enough of his men down for the count with the removal of their cover saves, I rolled brutally on my to wound rolls with it though.
Kid_Happy Vs. Z|insane
Eldar Tau Empire
200 Points
Eldar Army
The Murder(d): six Dire Avengers and five Swooping Hawks led by Exarch with a Hawks Talon
Tau Army
Elite: Crisis Shas'vre (4#, 199 pts)
1 Crisis Shas'vre @ 199 pts ((C:TE, pg. 34); Acute Senses; Deep Strike; Unit Type: Jump Infantry (Jet Packs); Airbursting Fragmentation Projector; Team Leader; Shas'vre Upgrade; Crisis Battlesuit; Crisis Battlesuit; Hard-wired Drone Controller; Shield Drone; Missile Pod; Multi-Tracker)
1 Crisis Battlesuit (Burst Cannon; Missile Pod; Multi-Tracker)
1 Crisis Battlesuit (Missile Pod; Plasma Rifle; Multi-Tracker)
1 Shield Drone (Shield Generator)
Report Begins
"Commander Kais, I have a sqaud of Eldar ahead. Permission to engage?"
"Negative Lar, this is recon only our orders are not to engage, we are only here to find the extent of the Ork infestation. The Water Cast still think's it is possible to broker a deal with at least one the Eldar tribes."
"Ah yes enlightened one. Just to let you know they are coming this way, oh look they totally want to talk." Lar grinned in the view screen.
The Eldar had shifted quickly towards the squads position cutting the distance between them quickly with their winged warriors.
"So much for the Stealth Team giving us a heads up huh Doran. Kais looks like you will get to use your new toy." Lar was on the edge ready to get the first kill of the campaign.
"Keep the comms clean Lar, I want everyone to cover now. Kais to Command we have Eldar inbound presumed hostile. Requesting permission to engage."
"Command to Kais, engage."
The battlesuits moved to position along the ruins of a building and a crashed lander. Kais fired his first round out of the experimental Airbursting Fragmentation Launcher. The explosion ripped through the front lines of the Eldar, but they continued on barely slowing in their advance.
"Is that really the best you can do with your fancy toy Kais, I got the two in the center, Doran lets show the boss how its done."
The suits missilepods streaked towards the Eldar Swooping Hawks exploding into their ranks leaving one dead and the other seeking cover.
The Eldar kept coming and firing their lasblasters their shots pinging off the Suit's armor.
"Doran, they are coming for Lar, as much as I hate to let him have all the glory shift right, cover him, and don't let them flank us." Kais put down a indicator on the his battle map and saw Doran's confirmation light flash, before making a second attempt with his fragmentation launcher, this time with more success. Two eldar dire avengers dropped from the blast and forced a swooping hawk to the ground.
Lar's burst canon burped its death towards the Hawks Exarch and his cohorts, with his missiles following the rounds towards his targets knowing that he would be forced into close combat with the Hawk. Only one hawk pressed on toward him firing its hawks talon into the suit with no effect, before the Exarch slammed into the suit.
"Lar are you okay?"
"Are you kidding me he hits like you Kais." Lar grimaced under the attacks as he attempted to swing back at the Exarch. "I will give him this though hes fast. Can you keep the rest off me this is getting fun."
"You heard him Doran." Kais had let his attention be diverted with Lar's fight with the Exarch, was quickly reminded as the newly appointed squad leader's shield drone exploded under the fury of the shurikan blades of the avenger that was covering his Exarch.
Quickly brining his targeting systems to bear on the Eldar and eliminated him and his cohorts behind him with a volley of his missiles and fragmenation round.
Doran finished off the right flank with a sense of finality as his plasma rifle launched its superheated payload into the cover that a Hawk had taken refuge from vaporising the cover letting the second round vaporise the surprised Eldar's torso.
Lar parried the Exarch to keep his suits weaker joints from damage, but was in no position to retaliate.
"Come on lets do this stay still so I can hit you already." Lar cursed at the winged warrior.
The Exarch stopped and waved at him
"Another time youngling. I would continue this, but we are needed elsewhere." The Exarch and his remaining avengers phased out of existence.
Lar jumped to the Exarch's previous location. "Coward. Kais permission to continue advancing after them."
Kais command line blinked at him. "Command to Kais, pull back to your patrol we have an Ork horde advancing on the Eldar in your location."
"Kais to Command, confirmed we are pulling out zero casualties on our end to report"
Lar glared over the viewscreen. "We have them though"
"YOU have your orders Lar, we are pulling back" Kais ordered.
Report Ends
Remarks: I was totally lucky in my armor saves. The only save I failed was rolling a 1 on the shield drone. The extra shots, range and strength of the missile pods pushed Kid_Happy's army to the limit of its endurance though and forced the Hawks down to cover slowing their advance for more shots before the assault hit. The Airbursting Fragmentation Launcher put enough of his men down for the count with the removal of their cover saves, I rolled brutally on my to wound rolls with it though.
Very Nice. I'll take a look at the photos I took.
ReplyDeleteNahrign soared into the sky, contrails of the Tau weaponry arcing all around him. Glancing below he could see the last of the Avengers vanish like whispers.
This battle was lost, as had been predicted, but this was the first incident in a sequence of many. Later, the rangers would collect the stones of the fallen and bring them to the shrines and after that the retribution.
This would be the catalyst to draw the others out of there torpor and wake their dead with the songs of violence."
Thoughts: This was an interesting fight. I wanted to see if the range on the Hawks would be of any use but S3 AP5 on T4 A3 is no match. I'm sure my ranger would have put up a better fight but just about anything would have been better than what I scored here. Z.insane held firm and didn't leave his cover. Out gunned and out classed he worked my kill team effortlessly. Hopefully, I learned a lesson (never bring a knife to a gunfight). Great post z!